Robert Barnwell Rhett, the Father of Southern Nationalism, explained using clear language in his memoir the root of the conflict between the North and South in the 1860s. Rhett, who had served as a US Senator and a representative in the provisional Confederate Congress, wrote a report in the latter capacity which explained to European governments as well as to...
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In the summer of 1876 South Carolina, a formerly influential and wealthy State, was commonly referred to as ‘the Prostrate State.’ Journalist Alfred B Williams describes the horrors of the Reconstruction era United States military occupation of the Palmetto State in his book Hampton and his Red Shirts: South Carolina’s Deliverance in 1876 as...
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Northern historian and author Bruce Levine, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, appeared as a guest on the National Public Radio show ‘Fresh Air‘ to promote a new book he has written entitled The Fall of the House of Dixie. Levine was interviewed by native New Yorker...
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Dr Walter E Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason, has a new article out on the secession movement which sprang up in the wake of Barack Obama’s re-election. Dr Williams is a long-time supporter of self-determination and critic of the US Federal Government. In this article he dares to defend the right of...
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One of the most interesting Southern nationalists of the nineteenth century had to be William Porcher Miles, a man who demonstrated exceptional ability on many fronts. The descendant of French Huguenots, Miles grew up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, a bastion of early Southern nationalism. University of Houston history professor Dr Eric H...
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SNN’s resident artist, Matthew at MissouriTenth.com and The Southern Activist, has a new pro-South graphic out. He writes: In the Year of Darkness, 1864, the rulers of the Yankee army devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by waging Total War upon a People. The plan required something that felt no pity. No integrity. No...
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Imagine if the Russians, after being overrun by the Mongols, simply re-enacted their lost battles again and again. Imagine if the Spanish, overrun by the Moors, just re- enacted their lost battles. Imagine if they swore allegiance to their conquerors’ flags and joined their conquerors’  armies. Imagine if they came to believe that they were...
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Early Southern nationalist leader and South Carolina statesman Robert Barnwell Rhett struggled against Southern conservatives his entire political career. Even after three decades of leading the cause for Southern independence, he and his fellow Fire-Eaters (as Southern nationalists were then known) were pushed aside once the Southern States seceded in 1860-61 and control of...
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Note: This is part two in a series of articles focusing on the inhuman way in which the people of Missouri were treated in the period before, during and after the US war against the South. The quotations below are taken from Paul Petersen’s book Quantrill at Lawrence: The Untold Story. There has never been an...
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The United States’ conquest of the independent South in 1865 was a horror impossible for us today to fully comprehend because we have not endured such devastation and death. Dr Walter Edgar writes about the different emotional responses of Southerners on page 374 of his book South Carolina: A History: Men in gray reacted differently to the...
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They say ‘Never Forget’ about the less than 3,000 New Yorkers and foreigners killed on September 11, 2001. But if we Southerners say that about the quarter million of our family members whom the United States killed in the 1860s (to say nothing of the century and a half of exploitation that has followed)...
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One of the most passionate Southern nationalists in the Antebellum period was Laurence M Keitt of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Keitt was a strong supporter of Robert Barnwell Rhett and a Fire-Eater. He served in the South Carolina State Government before being elected to the United States Congress, where he was involved in at least...
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